Adaptation Quote by Jeff Britting

The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time.…

— Linda Lavin

Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages of the…

— Sarah Waters

When you got source material, whether it's a play or a book - a great writer often appreciates being adapted and developed. It's like…

— Jude Law

If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not…

— Marjane Satrapi

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

— Patrick Ness

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

— Dana Brunetti

It's tricky turning a book into a movie. Sometimes people love the book so much that no adaptation lives up to what they imagined.…

— Craig Ferguson

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . .…

— George Bernard Shaw

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away…

— Ben Elton

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still…

— David Nicholls

. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think…

— Arthur Miller

I'm happy that I wrote 'How Should a Person Be?' and I wouldn't have written that exact book if we had just done the…

— Sheila Heti